Re: Unfinished business: password policy and VLV
Howard Chu <[email protected]>
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John McGarvey wrote: > > LDAP password policy and VLV (scrolling view browsing) are implemented > by a number of LDAP servers, more or less in accordance with now expired > drafts. Both of these extensions are quite valuable, and both now have > multiple independent implementations, but there are no corresponding > RFCs. Is there a plan to get these drafts back on track? It seems to me > that there should be. While we're on the topic, the VLV draft is missing a feature to release the search context. E.g., in PagedResults if the client sends a control with PageSize set to 0 then the paging context is abandoned/released and no further results are returned. The VLV spec is written from the perspective of using a persistent dedicated DB index to satisfy the requests, so it doesn't take releasing of resources into account. But it also doesn't *require* a persistent index for the implementation. In the case where a temporary/transient index is used, currently the only way to release the resources is by closing the connection, which is not very friendly. It seems that the tone of this discussion only went toward documenting current practice, but it would be nice to fix the flaws along the way. > John McGarvey > IBM directory architect > 919-877-4892 or t/l 254-4892 -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/